[mythtv-users] MythTV deletes recordigs

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/24/2014 11:57 AM, Dustin Oprea wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>> On 24/02/14 15:15, Dustin Oprea wrote:
>>
>>> The recordings were there for a week, a month, or a year, and then,
>>> suddenly, were deleted. I experience this phenomenon only with Myth
>>> recordings (and no other files on that volume).
>> I would be very worried if Myth (or another program) would delete other
>> files than recordings if the filesystem fills up...
> My point being that it's not some other, outside agent doing it. Since it's
> only happening to my Myth recordings, it's definitely Myth.
>
>

There is no functionality, whatsoever, in MythTV that deletes recording 
files without deleting recording metadata (whether the deletion is 
interactive or automatic).  And because the only time MythTV ever 
deletes any recordings without user interaction is expiration (when 
recording to a full file system), when deleting "old" Live TV or Deleted 
recordings, or when trimming short "surfing" recordings from the Live TV 
chain, I can't think of any functionality in MythTV that could result in 
a bug that causes it to delete recording files and leave the recording 
metadata.  And, a system misconfiguration (such as a database connection 
without sufficient (=ALL) privileges) would result in some noisy 
database errors all over the logs, so you would know your configuration 
is broken.  And, this is the first time I have ever seen anyone mention 
such a symptom.

I'd wager it's something external (possibly even 3rd-party 
MythTV-related applications/scripts/... or file system issues or ...) 
messing with MythTV's files.  It may be limited to MythTV recordings due 
to some other factor (such as "only MythTV is using the affected file 
system(s)" or "only MythTV has files > 2/4/... GB in size" or ...) and 
not due to "MythTV is deleting my files when it shouldn't".

Mike